Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-17

The canvass being made is the most thorough

The canvass being made is the most thorough
possible.
SMALL TALK.
Representative McShanc left this after
noon for Boston, whence he goes Immediately
to Omaha
Mayor Sawyer, Of Lincoln, is in the city to
await u decision of the supreme court in the
Lincoln habeas corpus case. The mayor is
one of the defendants In the case.
. Scnatorelcct Granville Z. Moody, of Dead
wood, is here and says Dakota people prefer
to not be annexed TO statehood if they cannot
have their territory first divided.
The postmaster general has positively re-
fused to grant the petition for the establish
mcnt of Loran postoffce, in Boone county, ON
the ground that an office of that name al
ready exists in Butler. The patrons of the
office are called upon to furnish another
name.
Z. w. Bucker, of Iowa, has been appointed
to clerkship in the postofiice department.
He will sign the pay roll for 5000 u year.
Calvin 5. Wheaton, of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
grand chief conductor of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, is at the Ebbitt
II is believed that the house committee on
rules will be composed of the speaker and
Mossrs. Randall, Mills, Reed and either
General Brown, of Indiana, or Mr.. Cannon,
of Illinois.
Ed Hunter, chairman of the Iowa demo-
cratic state committee, was u visitor at the
house to-day. PERRY s. HEATH.
A Brief Session of the House.
WAsuINGToN, Dec. 16.--,A concurrent reso-
luton was submitted that when the houses
adjourn Monday, December 10, they stand
adjourned until January 8, and, after consid
cradle debate, the resolution was amended
so as TO make the adjournment for rcccs
occur Thursday December ~
Mr. Townshend Of Illinois offered resou-
ti6n providing that next Monday shall he de-
fnH IN hn tNfYI lttrtt. a Af
bills and resolutions. Laid over till Monday.
Mr.. Blanchard of Louisiana offered res
olution expressive of the regret with which
the house has heard of the death of f.. w.
Robertson, late member elect to the fiftieth
congress from Louisiana and then, as a mark
OF respect, the house adjourned until Monday.
Capital City Notes.
WASHINGTON Dec. 16.--Comptroller Tren-
holm, cx-officio commissioner of the Freed
mems Savings and Trust company, to-day
submitted to the house his annual report,
showing balance, December 3, of 81, 19l.
There are still due ,496 claims amounting to
1914 and not paid because no demand had
been made. The available assets, estimated
at Sl3,S17, are considered sufficient for the
payment of these claims whenever called for,
and for defraying the necessary expenses of
the office. The commissioner renewed the
suggestion contained in his last report con
lnc Dy congress OF tnC pal
ance due depostors; submits the draft of
bill for the purpose and quotes the recon-
mcndaton that congress discharge its plain
duty in the matter.
The secretary of the interior today trans
mittcd to the house the report of the commits
sioners appointed in conjunction with the
Texas state commission to run line between
a portion of the Indian territory and Texas.
The ucommission has ceased its labors,
not being able to effect settlement
where the Tooth meridian of longitude
crosses the Red river in accordance with the
treaty of 1919 between the United States and
Spain
Secretary Endicott left the city tonight on
tour of inspection in the west.
The clerk of the house has completed and laid
before that body an index Of southern claims
and claims referred to the court of claims
under the Bowman act. The total number
of claims reported to congress is q, 29S, which
includes allowed, disallowed and barred
cases, involving the sum of $50, ,255, $50, of
which amount the SUM Of "a 636, $50 was
allowed.
Nebraska and Iowa Pensions.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. Especial Telegram
to the BEE. l-Pensions were issued for the
following Nebraskans to-day: Abil A.,
widow Of Cornelius Baker, Union Ridge.
Mexican war-Alfred b. Stevens, Riverton.
Orignal-Beniamin +. Frair, Bertrand In
crease-John II. Hamilton, Carrico.
Pensions for Iowans; Walter (deceased),
father of John Dykeman, LIE Mars; Mahala,
mother of Henry c. Vaughan, Monroe. 1872
Susan, widow of John Wick, Emmetsburg.
Mexican war-John Redburn, Moulton;
Philip Bradstrcets, Tihin. Original-Jona-
than B. Fellows, Emmetsburg; Isaac A.
Hardenbrook, Prairie City. Incrcasc-Cor-
nelius Jordan (deceased), Boone; George
Miller, Council Bluffs; Charles W. Morgan,
Clarinda; Luke McLoney, Eddyvillc; Charles
b. Thompson, Knoxville; Edward Murphy,
Utica. Rcissue-Martin Harrington, Chero-
kee; Myron E, Billings, Wavery.
Army News.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 Especial Telegram
to the BEE. Leave of absence for six
months has been granted, on surgeons GER
tiicatc, to Captain Thomas G. Lebo, Tenth
cavalry, with permission to leave the Depart
ment of the Pacific. Leave of absence has
been granted, on certificate of disability De
ccmber I, 1885, to First Lieutenant A. Mann,
regimcntal adjutant. Seventeenth infantry,
extended three months The extension Of